World's deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47
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World's deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47
Military History Society of Rochester - Inventor of the AK-47 Mikhail Kalashnikov Died December 23, 2013 b. 1919 Russian firearms designer. Inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle. He named it the AK-47 (
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